7/28/24 Sulfur Creek 7.5, JP 111 and lots of company

[DimitriMilovich]

A nice weird afternoon at Sulfur yesterday with a good crew out on everything:
- Peter and Gerraline (sp?) and a winger whose name I didn't get (sorry) were out there early at 10:45 right when it picked up. All reported steadier wind than the afternoon. Peter on 7.5, Gerraline on 4.5, Wing guy on .... ?

When we got there at 1:30, it was the usual gusty with large holes, but no one was deterred, even persevering when it went very weirdly almost south offshore about 3:30 or so for a while, leaving folks reaching in multiple directions all at the same time.
- Doug was out doing his usual flawless impersonation of an ice skater leaving curvy skinny grooves in the barely-rippling surface on his 6.0 kite foil! (he switched to 8.0 for a bit as well). Wow, as usual.
- Dane out on a 7.0 several times, got some good rides.
- Andrew kite foiling on a 12m kite, then later on his one wheel in the parking lot with a trainer kite. First one wheel ATVing I've ever seen, as he motored his board and foil from his car to the launch and back multiple times!
- Jersey John rigged big, an 8.0 and 120+ liter board, and got some great screaming reaches and ripped some crisp big-sail jibes off later in the afternoon.
- We got rides on 7.0 and 7.5. Lake still quite high, island not really visible yet, water quite nice for a shorty. Saw a group of about 10 sandhill cranes in the field just west of the quarry! Left at 5:30 or so. Channeled John Dubbock and warned a family whose kids were going out on an inflatable SUP without a leash(!) how dangerous it was - they'd just gotten it and didn't know. The dad found a 6-foot strap in his truck and all was OK then...

Fun afternoon was had by all in spite of the variable conditions.